Dr. Tehmina Goskar, director of the Curatorial Research Centre, co-founded MuseumHour with Sophie Ballinger in October 2014. The weekly peer-to-peer chat on Twitter “holds space for debate” for museum people all around the world.
This month, Goskar officially steps back from her role at MuseumHour. This episode serves as both an “exit interview” for Goskar’s MusuemHour work and a chance to highlight other projects that she has founded based on her curatorial philosophy.
In this episode, Goskar discusses founding the Curatorial Research Centre, democratizing culture through her Citizen Curators program (in association with the Cornwall Museums Partnership), and how over six years of MuseumHour conversations have shaped her work.
Topics and Notes
00:00 Intro
00:15 MuseumHour at 6.5 Years Old (https://twitter.com/museumhour?lang=en)
00:50 Tehmina Goskar (https://www.curatorialresearch.com/people/)
01:20 MuseumHour's Founding
03:00 Mediums and Platforms
04:35 Museum Conferences
05:30 What is Curation?
07:15 "To Care For"
07:30 The Curatorial Research Centre (https://www.curatorialresearch.com/)
09:20 Citizen Curators (https://www.cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk/citizen-curators/)
12:38 Archipelago at the Movies: How to Steal A Million (1966) (https://www.patreon.com/posts/archipelago-at-47449904)
14:05 Outro | Join Club Archipelago ?️ (https://www.patreon.com/museumarchipelago)
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Transcript
Below is a transcript of Museum Archipelago episode 89. Museum Archipelago is produced for the ear, and only the audio of the episode is canonical. For more information on the people and ideas in the episode, refer to the links above.


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For the past 6 and a half years, more or less weekly, museum people gather on Twitter for something called MuseumHour. Together, these people form a peer to peer community, supporting discussion and debate between those who work in, enjoy, and challenge museums in society.


Tehmina Goskar: That's the beauty of MuseumHour. It is entirely independent. It is not an organization. It is just about holding a space so other people can talk with each other.


This is Dr. Tehmina Goskar, who co-founded MuseumHour back in October 2014. Goskar also founded the Curatorial Research Centre.


Tehmina Goskar: Hello, my name is Tehmina Goskar and I am the director and curator of the Curatorial Research Centre. And that's an organization I started back in 2018, very much to support fellow curators from around the world and also to make progress in modernizing curatorial practice.


This month, Goskar officially steps back from her role in MusuemHour. I wanted this to serve as both an exit interview and a chance to highlight other projects that she has founded based on her curatorial philosophies.


Tehmina Goskar: Museum Hour started